Astronomers are discovering its
properties by probing the objects that are buzzing around it at
mind-boggling speeds.

From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some
100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and
about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxy's center.

Thick dust and blinding starlight have
long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the
galactic center. And yet, the clues have been piling up, that
something important, something strange is going on in there.
Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found
the best proof to date that black holes exist.

Now, they are shooting for the first
direct image of a black hole.

The mysteries that lie within the center
of the Milky Way serves as the basis for this enticing documentary.

This breathtaking swirl composed of gas,
dust, and billions of stars has remained largely elusive throughout
history, but its secrets may hold the key to understanding much of
what remains unknown about our universe.

The documentary opens by tracing the historical discoveries which have led
to our present-day understanding of the Milky Way. That history
began in the 1930s when American physicist Karl Jansky
identified the Milky Way as a source of radio static for Bell
Telephone Industries.

More than three decades later, acclaimed
astronomer Eric Becklin helped to construct infrared
technology which allowed his team to peer through the clouds of dust
particles to uncover the center of the Milky Way.

In the 1990s, aided by highly advanced telescopic technologies, two
groups of astronomers formed observational stations in different
parts of the globe in order to further understand the contents and
activities that lay at the center of the galaxy.

Becklin was stationed in Hawaii, while
astronomer Reinhart Jensen studied from the Max Planck
Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany.

The speed with which objects swarmed and
circled around this galactic center led to the possibility of a supermassive black hole, a theory further supported by the
awe-inspiring imagery captured by
the Hubble telescope.

Featuring insightful footage of these renowned scientists at work
and a wealth of gorgeous space photography and animations, this film
follows the continuing journey for knowledge that was set in motion
by Jansky all those years ago.

Their quest is occasionally thwarted
by the limitations of current technology, a challenge they overcome
with impressive cooperation and ingenuity.